Tag: fossils
Tiny cut marks on animal bone fossils reveal that human ancestors...
Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Institution; Sabrina Curran, Ohio University, and Virgil Drãgușin, Academia Română
Looking again through the magnifying lens...
Rare Florida fossil finally ends debate about how porcupine jaws and...
Natasha S. Vitek, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
A rare, nearly complete fossil of an...
Horses lived in the Americas for millions of years – new...
Stephanie Killingsworth, University of Florida and Bruce J. MacFadden, University of Florida
Many people assume that horses first came...
Reconstructing ancient bacterial genomes can revive previously unknown molecules – offering...
Christina Warinner, Harvard University; Alexander Hübner, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Pierre Stallforth, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Microorganisms –...
Megalodon sharks ruled the oceans millions of years ago – new...
Emma Kast, University of Cambridge; Jeremy McCormack, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, and Sora Kim, University of California, Merced
Millions of years ago, the megalodon ruled the oceans – why...
Michael Heithaus, Florida International University
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Yorkicystis, the 500 million-year-old relative of starfish that lost its skeleton
Samuel Zamora, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME - CSIC)
After four years of digging for fossils in...
Fossil spine suggests ancient human relative walked like us, but climbed...
Scott A. Williams, New York University
Around two million years ago an ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba, lived in...
EXPLORING NATURE
Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were...
Ben Marwick, University of Washington
New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before....
